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Originally posted by arcangl7:
We all posess unique talents, abilities, skills, attitudes, and thought processes. What are your unique attributes that distinguish you from the other candidates and current members of the board?

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Technical Skills – Having an engineering and computer background helps me do things like: assist geocachers with formatting on their cache pages, modify the COTM/COTY graphics, create PDA files for the WGA events, create a system whereby the info for the temp caches at the WGA events is only entered once, and the PDA files, GPX files, hint page and cache booklet are automatically generated (in progress).

Organizational Skills – I must admit that I am not completely organized in all aspects of my life, only where it really counts. My checkbook (as well as the WGA’s) is always kept up to date and balanced. Every scrap of paper dealing with the WGA treasury is kept organized by date and type, along with an electronic file containing much more detail of all transactions.

Empathy – Prior to becoming a reviewer for geocaching.com, I had the unpleasant experience of having a geocache archived because it didn’t fit the guidelines. I remember what it felt like to be on the receiving end of that “Your Cache Has Been Archived” e-mail. I try very hard to work with the geocache submitter to bring their cache into compliance with the guidelines, or at a minimum try to break the bad news as softly as possible.

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Originally posted by The Tapps:
I believe we should be able to vote persons too a position when makeing our votes. Why are the positions not known when we vote!! If we do not know the positions, then how can we vote?? I believe that all positions should be listed as we vote for them!! Then we can know who to vote for!! I think it should be too the voters and NOT the boared who should be placed in their positions. Then why should we vote??? The Tapps

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It would seem that there are some other organizations that operate like this too. My snowmobile club runs their elections / officer selection the same way.

The membership elects the board members, and the board members elect the officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer).

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Have another look at the Cache Page.

Looks to be all straightened out.

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I had the same problem….

I’ve upgraded to Firefox 1.5 and now I see the pretty blue new features.

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He hasn’t “driven” the GPS yet, but my daughter has.

It’s amazing, but every time I am out with my kids, they ALWAYS find the geocache. I make sure of that.

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Originally posted by Cache & Keri:
I have a Wisconsin geocoin which I’d like to place in one of our caches in Florida. Unfortunately, I lost the activation code for the coin.

Does anyone know who I should contact to retrieve the activation code?

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Yes, you should contact treasurer at wi-geocaching dot com.

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Here’s a picture, taken on New Year’s Eve 2005:

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If I had it to do all over again, I would have went with the 60 series. The primary reason? The buttons are on the bottom instead of at the top.

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If you have the blue Legend, it only has 8mB of memory in it. That is not enough to get both Milwaukee and Chicago with either Metroguide or City Select. You may want to consider getting “Mapsource Roads & Rec” because you can probably get enough detail in for both cities.

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I was just poking around on gc.com on New Year’s Eve, and I came across one of my own logs, which had me at 397 finds. My reaction was “If I’m that close, I might as well try and hit 400 before the end of the year.” With that in mind, I loaded up the GPSr with a pocket query, then tried to spin/pluck the info onto my PDA.

D’oh! Plucker would do nothing but lock up for me (see the help section of these forums). So, for the first time in AGES, I actually printed out some cache pages.

I loaded my son in the car (he’s 4) and we headed out to Waukesha to grab 3 caches. The first two were micros, and the last one was a full-size ammo box. As luck would have it, the cache had some brand-new hot-wheels cars in it, which are my son’s favorite. I traded the cars for a new picture frame and spiral bound photo album, signed the log, took a pic, then took my son to McDonalds for french fries (also his favorite).

Thanks for the kudos!

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Originally posted by marc_54140:
Although I do not know many details, the Michigan group (MiGo?) has a listing of cachers who retreive lost or abandoned caches. Sounds like perhaps that fits the concept you are getting at.

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When I was first elected to the board a couple of years ago, “Cache Rescue” was one of the programs I wanted to impliment. I drew up a preliminary outline for the program and submitted it to the rest of the board.

The overall response from the rest of the board was that a formal progam was not necessary. “The message boards seem to be an OK way round up volunteers to help caches (cachers).”

So, the formal “Cache Rescue” program was not implimented. What I have found is that most WGA members tend to be very willing to help out, so I now agree that a formal program for cache rescue is probably not required.

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Originally posted by AstroD-Team:
I am curious if you can elaborate more on how to implement a “cleanup of disabled caches” policy. There are several caches in our area that have been disabled for a long time. I have emailed the owners but they do not respond. Adoption is always an option but I am not sure about what one needs to do “officially” to adopt a cache.

I do think the WGA needs to implement some type of policy to streamline these processes a little bit faster.

Don from AstroD-Team

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Don,

What I would propose for “Long Disabled Cache Cleanup” would go something like this:

1. All caches that have been disabled more than XX Months would get a friendly note posted to the cache page, along with a private e-mail asking about the status.

2. If the owner responds, a dialouge will continue to decide the fate of the cache. Repair, Adoption, Archive, or whatever.

3. If the owner does not respond within XX weeks, the cache would then be archived or adopted.

I would anticipate trying to conduct this type of clean-up quarterly, or possibly monthly.

Using this system, all a geocacher would have to do to adopt a long-disabled cache would be to post a note on the actual cache page that they are interested in adopting it. That way, if the owner does not respond, the person doing the cleanup would know to proceed with the adoption instead of the archive.

I don’t forsee the need for a hard-and-fast rule regards to this procedure. I believe that there should be as much flexability as possible to allow for unusual or extenuating circumstances.

With regards to adopting caches, usually the best way to go about that would be to contact one (or both) of the Wisconsin geocache reviewers for geocaching.com with what you would like to do. Then we would approach the cache owner on behalf of geocaching.com. Very often they are very happy to have the cache adopted or there is no response whatsoever. Then we would proceed to contact the folks at groundspeak to process the adoption.

The e-mail address for the two Wisconsin reviewers are:
[email protected] and
[email protected]

Edited for spelling.

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Jeremy,

It does stop at the same spot each time. I’m guessing that it is the same problem you are seeing. I since have removed Plucker from my machine because after it crashes, it leaves some junk running in the background.

I since have installed an un-registered version of cachemate, and tried it on my PDA. So far I like what I see. I still need to figure out how to get the last logs to show up.

Thanks for the help, I think that I am now “converted” to cachemate.

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Originally posted by wzbt03:
Rather then respond to your obvious taunt Tie, I will take the higher road and just ignore you.

Since we do see each other in person on occassion, we can discuss it then.

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I’m not taunting anybody.

I truly don’t understand your question.

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